Infinitely Losing My Edge

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Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Andorra and from Madrid.
But I was there.

I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1963 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.

To all the kids in Copenhagen and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.

I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.

I was there in 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing The Grass Roots to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.

But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.

I'm losing my edge.

I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by ABBA. All the underground hits.

All Juan Atkins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roxette record on German import.

I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.

I hear you're buying a theremin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aural Exciters record.

I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.

I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.

But have you seen my records?

Jeff Mills, the Association, The Mighty Diamonds, Barclay James Harvest, Eve St. Jones, kango's stein massive, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Country Joe & The Fish, Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Nico, Interpol, Brothers Johnson, Vainqueur, June of 44, Rod Modell, Sound Behaviour, the Bar-Kays, The Wake, Notorious Big And Bone Thugs, Sandy B, Masters at Work, John Holt, The Birthday Party, Deepchord, Sixth Finger, Sam Rivers, Blossom Toes, Ten City, Minutemen, Gastr Del Sol, Pulsallama, The Residents, Altered Images, Faust, E-Dancer, Fatback Band, Circle Jerks, The Young Rascals, Tom Boy, Aaron Thompson, The Litter, New Age Steppers, Black Flag, Supertramp, Q65, Technova, Derrick Morgan, Visage, Sister Nancy, The Index, Grandmaster Flash, The Music Machine, Crash Course in Science, Country Teasers, Bang On A Can, Guru Guru, The Smoke, Todd Terry, Bronski Beat, Ludus, Icehouse, Girls At Our Best!, Eli Mardock, Crispian St. Peters, Crispian St. Peters, Crispian St. Peters, Crispian St. Peters.

You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.

A hack by Matthew Ogle who is very sorry to James Murphy and basically everyone (cheers to Darius and this for the late-night inspiration)